Emoji in IT

[Rudi]

There aren't many ways to express information technology concepts using emoji unless you get a little creative. Could you have an IT conversation using only emoji? If a help desk ticket landed in your inbox containing only the following images, could you decipher its meaning?

See if you can decode some of these common help desk issues.

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*Emojis sourced from the open-source Twemoji project

[Leif]

10.

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I keep getting phishing emails whenever I visit the gents.

[Rudi]

10.

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I keep getting phishing emails whenever I visit the gents.

Correct answer

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Personally I don't know what the "gents" sign is doing there --but that's how the puzzle/quiz came to me...

[HansV]

1.

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The monitor died

2.

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I can't print

9.

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My computer's connection (or WIFI) is broken

12.

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PEBCAC

[Rudi]

Hans, all correct too..

Comments:

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1. Monitor died could also have been PC died.
12. PEBCAC (computer) could have also been PEBCAK (keyboard)
For those who do not know the acronym: Problem Exists Between Chair And Computer

[Leif]

# 4 has me stumped. It looks like it could be "I can't transfer data from my old 3.5" floppy using a small red car to a bigger blue car."

But why? Who uses small red cars these days?

[PaulB]

4.

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Disk crash

but I like Leif's answer better!

[Rudi]

Paul, that is correct. Leif's answer raises too many questions!

[Leif]

Let's try again, then

#5:

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I can't search my folders

#6:

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I have forgotten my password

#7:

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Web access has slowed to a snail's pace

[Rudi]

Your getting good it it now... (All correct!)

The answers for #5, #6 and #7, provided with the puzzle are as follows:

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5. File not found
6. Forgot / can't remember password
7. Internet is slow

The trick is not to be too literal.
For example, snail means slow...but you don't need to use snail pace. The fact that a snail is depicted is indicative of slow, not a literal snail!

[Rudi]

Still to be answered: #3, #8, #11

[Leif]

Hmmm.

#3:

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Virus

#8:

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Throttled by spyware (or just spy-wear)

#11:

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Recipe for oxtail soup alert.

[Rudi]

#3 and #8 100% correct

#11

[BobH]

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#11 - Java Script Error

[Rudi]

Hey yo... Bob! 100% correct!

[Leif]

Brilliant, Bob! I would never have got that!

[BobH]